Your fawning offends Islam, Archbishop... not your Christianity

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Your fawning offends Islam, Archbishop... not your Christianity


Last updated at 11:17 PM on 19th July 2008

Fawning: Dr Rowan Williams said key elements of Christianity were offensive to Muslims

When did we go soft? When did we develop our national tendency to cringe before we are even hit, to apologise for existing?

What's most striking about the past 50 years of our history is how we have given in without a fight to those who want to revolutionise our society.

It is all very well going on about Winston Churchill, but Archbishop Rowan Williams is a figure much more representative of modern Britain.

This prelate whimpered last week that Christianity was 'offensive' to Muslims.

Offensive? I know we have been urged to stop being horrid to this inept, terrifyingly well meaning man - and it really is nothing personal - but he does rather ask for it.

A few months ago he mused on the possibilities of allowing a little light Sharia Law in this country.

This is, I suppose, a point of view.

I just can't work out why the leader of a Christian church should hold it.

The same goes for the Lord Chief Injustice, Lord Phillips, whose entire career and substantial salary are based on centuries of Christian-based law.

If it is anyone's job to suggest Muslim law should get a toehold in Britain, it isn't his.

In my experience, Muslims aren't in the least bit 'offended' by Christianity.

I've argued with them about it, in places as different as Peshawar, on the North-West Frontier, and Whitechapel, in the East End of London.

And I had the impression they were relieved to find someone from the West who didn't fawn all over them.

What really offends them is what also offends many of us - crudity, drunkenness, pornography and licence.

In any case, given that Christianity was founded centuries before Islam, Muslims can't really claim to be upset by it, any more than I can be 'offended' by the existence of Stonehenge or a Hindu temple.

What should worry Dr Williams much more is the printing of millions of doctored versions of the Koran in Saudi Arabia, deliberately edited to encourage angry militancy.

I am grateful to Channel 4 and Antony Thomas for revealing this astonishing fact in their programme on the Koran last week.

What, you might ask, are tanks and missiles doing in a book 13 centuries old?

Well, in the Saudi edition, English translation, Surah 8, verse 60, a passage on unbelievers reads: 'Make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery) to threaten the enemy of Allah.'

And in a verse that speaks of those who have earned God's anger and gone astray, someone has inserted - in brackets - 'such as the Jews' and 'such as the Christians'.

The programme also pointed out that in Surah 5, verse 69, the Koran assures righteous Jews and Christians that 'no fear should come upon them'.

A footnote in the Saudi version insists that this was cancelled by a later verse which claims that those of any religion other than Islam will never be accepted.

This might be something to get offended about, if you wanted to, Dr Williams.

• Don't be fooled by New Labour's attempt to pretend that it died in a tragic accident when Anthony Blair's canoe was spitefully sunk by Gordon Brown.

The whole thing was a fix designed to diddle the country out of billions of pounds after the next Election.

Blair did not die, but swam home and went off to hide in the Conservative Party under the name David Cameron.

The disguise is so thin, you'd think anyone could see through it.

• What joy to learn that the anti-God movie epic The Golden Compass, based on Philip Pullman's atheist children's fables, flopped so badly that a sequel is unlikely.

Despite using bankable stars - Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig - the makers couldn't turn Pullman's prose into another Lord Of The Rings, even after gutting it of much of the propaganda.

No escaping the town hall Thought Police


Sorry about this, but right-thinking people are rejoicing too soon over the case of Lillian Ladele - the registrar given a hard time at a Left-wing town hall for refusing to officiate at homosexual civil partnerships.

The lowly employment tribunal that backed her can be overruled by the Employment Appeal Tribunal - and the case could even end up in the High Court.

Islington Council, which was found to have discriminated against Miss Ladele, is appealing.

And the homosexual lobby is determined to win.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if some higher court imposes a politically correct verdict.

Liberal lawyers are already in a froth, calling the tribunal decision 'extreme'.

Why does it matter so much? As far as I can discover, Miss Ladele's principles didn't cause severe inconvenience to her colleagues.

Last year even PC Islington had many more marriages (799) than civil partnerships (230) - and the number of civil partnerships is dropping fast anyway after the first burst of enthusiasm.

With 13 full-time registrars and eight more part-timers, you would have thought that, with a bit of give-and-take, nobody need be overworked because of Miss Ladele's principles.

What happened was that some of her colleagues, homosexuals themselves, decided to make an issue out of her beliefs, falsely calling her a bigot and also using that meaningless boo-word 'homophobe'.

These town hall Stalins made her life a misery, because they didn't like her opinions.

There's not a scrap of evidence that Miss Ladele has ever insulted or otherwise mistreated any homosexual.

The homosexual lobby want to be free to discriminate hard and strong against those who disagree with their opinions.

Offered tolerance, they pretended to want equality.

Actually they hope to stamp out traditional morality altogether.

They are the Thought Police - and they are frighteningly close to victory.

Mr Glum, and a criminal error


Every so often I come across a glum-faced cove called Dominic Grieve, who is trying to fill the hole left when David Davis, the former Shadow Home Secretary, was lost in a tragic accident somewhere off Hull.

Mr Grieve likes to rumble on about the police having to cope with too many forms, blaming this on the past 11 years of Labour government.

His maths isn't very good.

I am told that much of the worst bureaucracy stems from the Police And Criminal Evidence Act, 1984, and its codes of practice, and from the Criminal Procedure And Investigations Act 1996.

Who was in office then?

•Science now accepts that women's brains are different from men's brains, another revelation from the University of the Blindingly Obvious.

Soon these geniuses will also spot that women's bodies are different from men's.

These facts are recognised already by marketing men, hospitals, insurance companies, clothes shops, shoe shops, sensible schools, architects, and anybody else capable of thought.

Only the law insists that there is no difference between the sexes. Ever wondered why?





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